A Maltese investigative journalist who exposed the island nation's links to offshore tax havens through the leaked Panama Papers was killed Monday when a bomb exploded in her car, the prime minister said.

A Maltese investigative journalist who exposed the island nation's links to offshore tax havens through the leaked Panama Papers was killed Monday when a bomb exploded in her car, the prime minister said.

The US military is declining to blame the Iraqi government for the violence in Kirkuk, and instead is urging the central government in Baghdad and the Kurdish authorities to negotiate their differences.

Alec Baldwin has reprised in his role as Donald Trump for the latest episode of Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update, identifying the US president as the true martyr of the tragic Charlottesville rally.

When a fairly innocuous question about autopsy results in passports being confiscated and extra police being assigned to your hotel, you can’t help but wonder what the hell is going to happen, reporter Pete Stefanovic tells.

Boy, 3, dies in NSW car crash

A three-year-old boy has died while his brother and father are in hospital after the car they were in crashed into a tree on a rural road on the NSW/Victorian border.

The brothers, aged three and four, were treated at the scene by emergency services after the crash near Lake Mulwala, 100km west of Albury, on Sunday afternoon, but the three-year-old died at the scene, police said

The four-year-old is in Albury Hospital in a serious but stable condition while the 40-year-old father has been airlifted to Melbourne Hospital for treatment.

There were two other fatalities on NSW roads on Sunday with a man in his 20s dying in a two-vehicle crash at Gunning near Goulburn at around 5pm, while earlier in the day a Sydney man aged in his 50s died when his motorcycle hit a tree at Bell near Lithgow in the Blue Mountains.